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Making a Career in Private Equity

Intrigued by the mystique and excitement surrounding the world of PE sector and keen to find out more about making a career in private equity? Jebb Peria, associate at EVPE, one of the world’s leading specialist private equity firms in the energy...

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Creating Value Through Active Stewardship

By Rune Jensen, Senior Partner – Stavanger, Norway Value creation in private equity has historically been perceived as a form of financial engineering based on an investment philosophy of “quick in – quick out”. However, in recent years the...

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Rival Downhole Tools Secures Agreement for Drilling Motors

Rival Downhole Tools (Rival), a portfolio company of EV Private Equity, has secured a five-year collaborative supply agreement for drilling motors for US Land from a major oilfield services provider. Rival will utilize its market-leading...

Sustainability News

EVPE underlines commitment to responsible investment

EV Private Equity is pleased to announce it has signed the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The PRI aims to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into decision-making to create more...

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EV Private Equity buys Enhanced Drilling from Altor

Enhanced Well Technologies AS, a company owned and controlled by EV Private Equity (“EV”) and a major global oil company, has completed the purchase of Enhanced Drilling Holding AS (“Enhanced Drilling”) from the Altor 2003 Fund and Altor...

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Supporting the Gathimba Edwards Foundation

EV Private Equity is delighted to support the Gathimba Edwards Foundation by matching the donation total raised by our very own Jackie Burke for her trip to Karatina, Kenya in October. The trip is entirely self-funded by Jackie, and all donations go...

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The Future of UKCS: Small (and Agile) is Beautiful

By Greg Herrera, Senior Partner When the Americans decided to embark on the space programme for the moon landings in the early 1960s, they famously said that they chose to do it “not because it is easy but because it is hard”. Something of that...

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Collaboration is King

Sometimes it’s only by looking at the extremes of behaviour beyond your own industry that you get a sense of what is possible, desirable and profitable. This applies especially in supply chain collaboration, where we in the upstream oil and gas...

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Shale Shock

by Helge Tveit, Managing Partner Dogged by poor recovery rates and rapidly declining well output, the shale oil sector has disappointed since the initial boom. But investment in innovative refracking technologies can change that dynamic and deliver...

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A Digital Oilfield: The Shape of Things to Come

By Per Arne Jensen, Senior Partner The year 2030 sounds futuristic. It seems a long way off. In fact, we are closer to it than we are to 2008 – the year of the global financial crash – the effects of which continue to reverberate in the...